Humorous Structures of English Narratives, 1200-1600

Humorous Structures of English Narratives, 1200-1600
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 335
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ISBN-10 : 9781443853279
ISBN-13 : 1443853275
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Download or read book Humorous Structures of English Narratives, 1200-1600 written by Theresa Hamilton and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have the ability to recognize and create humour. But how do we do it? Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin have attempted to explain the workings of humour with their General Theory of Verbal Humor. How well does their theory explain the way humour ‘works’ in a particular text, and can it provide us with interesting, novel interpretations? By identifying and interpreting the narrative structures that create humour, this study tests the usefulness of Attardo & Raskin’s humour theory on a specific corpus of fabliaux, parodies and tragedies. Hamilton proposes a supplementation of the General Theory of Verbal Humor to create a means of undertaking what she calls a ‘humorist reading’. By posing the questions ‘why is this humorous?’, ‘how is it humorous?’ or ‘why is it not humorous?’ and providing the theoretical tools to answer them, a ‘humorist reading’ can make a valuable contribution to our understanding of a literary text and its place in society.


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